Nearly NaNo

[angiepen]

I can't believe it's October already [laugh/flail] but at least this time I have a fairly free October to think about what I'm going to write for NaNoWriMo, and maybe even jot down some plot/character/worldbuilding notes ahead of time, unlike last year when I was thinking up a name for the protag on November 1st while staring at an empty Word file

Comments

[mesnica]

I think I added you. The page is giving me problems :/ I'm Moraya over there.

[angiepen]

I got a message that you buddied me and I buddied you back. I still can't see you on my buddy list, mind you, but you're theoretically there. :P

Angie

[mesnica]

I managed to buddy exactly one person and have nano tell me so too. Everyone else, I'm just hoping I made it because I can't see them on my buddylist either. I'm just hoping they're adding a few more resources to the servers, because it's horrible at the moment.

[angiepen]

Last time I looked at the front page, there was a message from Chris saying that they expected it to speed up in a while. It's just that so many people piled on all at once as soon as they opened up registration and the servers can't handle it. I didn't sign up till the second week of October last year, then wandered off and didn't start actually hanging around on the site until November, but I remember the first week of November being just as horribly slow. It sped up quite a lot, though, after that. It's those initial flurries -- first sign-ups and then starting to actually write -- that draw the rampaging hordes. :)

About the one-line buddy list, I think that's a bug rather than a slowness thing. These user pages are new this year and it looks like they still need to spray a few more shots of Raid into the code. They've got almost a month to do it, though.

Angie

[mesnica]

Yeah, by the time I really started using the forum's last year, it was all fine. I didn't start in the first week of november though, so I hardly remember if the servers were really slow back then. Can easily imagine that though. To top everything, each year there are more people doing Nano, so it must be hard for them to anticipate exactly how much resources they need for a smooth run until we're all actually using the pages.

The buddylist to look at is definitely a bug, but I think it's different from the fact that the page isn't really letting you know if you successfully buddied someone or not right after you tried.

[angiepen]

Ah, I misunderstood what you meant. Yeah, it'd be nice if we got some sort of "Joe Added to your List!" message. [nod]

Angie